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Monday, May, 14, 2012 Many of you must be wondering why of late, so many people are suffering from cancer. About 50 years ago, the incidence of cancer was less than 25% of the figures in 2011. To an extent because our environment is cleaner, our activity levels have decreased and we rarely if at all, follow a healthy diet plan, humans have lost some of the ability to fight common diseases and our bodies have become weaker and more susceptible to diseases. However, this still does not explain why the incidences of cancer have quadrupled over the past five decades. The only logical explanation one can think of is the chemicals that directly or indirectly seep into our bodies.
Our food is awash with chemicals
These days all eateries and pre-packaged food manufacturers use a wide variety of chemicals primarily to enhance the shelf life of the product and secondarily to make the product tastier. Whatever little research is done is extremely short term and more often than not, the research is just to fulfill legal obligations. There is hardly any independent or government verification of the results.
The chemicals used in foods accumulate in our bodies and slowly corrupt it from the inside. Cancer is not something that happens overnight – it takes many years before it is detected. Those of us who are fortunate enough to afford a yearly full service checkup might have the cancer detected at its infancy. For the majority of people however, by the time cancer is detected it is already too late.
For obvious reasons, no government agency wants to come out and say modern day food is the source of the increase in cancer instead, this year USDA has recommended a shift to Daily diet meal plan that relies less on meats and more on vegetables. Unfortunately, businesses that deal in ready to eat and pre-packaged food were quick to increase the content of the vegetables in their preparations but also, at the same time adding a dose of the chemicals that ensure the veggies retain their color and also make it crispier. Haven’t you often wondered how is it that carrots you cook at home are pale pink and soft whereas the ones served in restaurants are bright pink and crispy? The same applies to other veggies too.
Switch over to your own Healthy eating worksheets
It is therefore high time we open our eyes and realize we have been victims of business greed and lack of adequate supervision. Businesses have always claimed they can run themselves ethically and do not need government supervision. Well, the recent recession has proved how ethical they are. Businesses care only for money and profit; your health and ethics is not part of the equation. The time has come to make you own healthy eating meal plan – one that is lean on meats and high on fresh, preferably organically grown vegetables.
A healthy diet plan should contain food from whole grains, vegetables, fruits, pulses and milk or milk products such as yogurt. Once you are on to a healthy diet plan, cut down on visits to the local diner for French fries and burgers. If required, make it at home. Stick to your healthy diet plan. The wonderful news is that body has tremendous capacity to rectify itself. Short of cancer, most other diseases can be controlled through a healthy diet plan alone.
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Foods that can harm
Although we might pretend otherwise, most of us already know what bad food are; stuff like burgers, French fries, pizzas, pastries, ice creams, chocolates, fizzy drinks etc. Most nutritionists and most physicians will also add beef and pork to the list of bad foods. Dig a little more and they will add fats and refined carbohydrates to the list. Fats of course refer to animal fat and cooking oils – both are harmful if consumed in excess. Refined carbohydrates refer to white sugar, white rice, white flour etc. Therefore, any natural weight loss program that requires you to consume less of or eliminate the above is good for your health.
Although the above restriction might sound extreme, in reality it only eliminates the foods that humans have added to their diet post industrialization. Before humans became ‘modernised’ (through use of manufactured goods), we never consumed items like white rice, white sugar, white flour etc. These ‘white’ food items are products of the machine era because they can only be made using modern day machinery.
What does an ‘eat-and-lose-weight’ natural weight loss plans look like?
On the food side of the equation, this weight management program will require you to ensure each meal is made up of whole grains, half a plate of vegetables, a quarter plates full of fruit, some complex carbohydrates and less of proteins that preferably comes from lot fat sources such as chicken, mutton, turkey and fish.
Here is a short list of food sources for proteins and carbohydrates that could be included in your weight management tips:
Excellent sources of Protein:
• Beans
• Split peas
• Lentils
• Low fat yogurt
• Cheese
• Low fat milk
• Egg whites
• Tofu
Excellent sources of Carbohydrates are:
• Brown rice
• Whole wheat pasta
• Oats
• Barley
• Buckwheat
• Millet
• Whole grain breads
• Zero fat, zero sugar Cereals
The right quantity
At the onset of this article, we mentioned that it is possible to lose weight provided your natural weight loss plans requires you eat the right food in the right quantity. To figure out the right quantity of food you should first consult your nutritionist. Your nutritionist will work out the amount of calories you require based on your age, your gender and activity level.
If the calories required are (say) 2,500 per day, then the right quantity of food will be that much that can provide you approximately 2,300 calories per day. For a weight loss, there always needs to be a slight deficit between the amounts of calories utilized verses the amounts of calories replenished. The slight deficit will induce the body utilise the fat resources and thereby cause a weight loss. Remember however, that the deficit should never be more than 200 calories otherwise, you feel weak and lacking in energy to complete your daily activity.
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One of the excellent ideas that cropped up was the notion of controlled meal plate. The controlled meal plate is a well-designed attempt to control the quantity of food we eat and the quality of the food we eat. The idea was to create a visual tool that takes out the guesswork as to what we should be eating and how much we should eat. Early meal plates were typically 11-inches in diameter, with gaudy designs and printed matter. People did not like these meal plates because:
• They were made from low grade plastic
• They had gaudy illustrations of fish, ham, fruits etc. on the plate itself.
• The prints were of poor quality
• The meal plate design clashed with existing cutlery
• The text on the meal plates made the user feel like it was more suited for a little child
Clearly, the idea was good but the implementation of the meal plate could have been more carefully considered. Enter meal plates designed by Precise Portions. Instead of low-grade plastic, high-grade porcelain china was used. The design too underwent a radical change – one that ensured the new meal plates were more in line with the designs on existing crockery without taking away the functionality of the meal plate. Simultaneously, the size of the meal plate was reduced to ten inches. The reduction in size of the meal plate was a stroke of genius because it meant that when food was placed on the plate, it gave the appearance of being full. This was vital since obese people always love a full plate.
The meal plate by Precise Portions was elegantly divided into three parts each for proteins, vegetables and fruits. The new meal plates were dishwasher and microwave safe and did not include text on the plate itself. This made it much easier to use the plates even when there were guests at the table. Simultaneously, the meal plate also included 10oz glasses and 16oz bowls that ensured liquids and soups were not over consumed.
While on the one hand nutritionist and physicians worked out activities (exercises) that helped us utilize the calories we consumed, the new meal plate designs ensured that we not only did not over eat, but also that we eat the right food in the right quantities.
Visit here for more information : http://blog.preciseportions.com/quick-healthy-weight-loss-tips/ Thursday, April, 5, 2012 It is said facts are sometimes stranger than fiction. Whoever said it probably knew what he or she was talking about – at least it holds true as far as human food consumption is concerned. Fact is, humans have begun eating more food than they need to. Higher disposable income has led to humans eating all sorts of exotic and ultra-rich food both at restaurants and at home. Portion sizes in restaurants and dinners too have undergone a dramatic upsizing. Each portion plate of food served at your local dinner probably can feed two if not more people. The smallest unit of readymade packaged foods too has undergone a sea change – there is enough food in it to feed more than one person. Businesses too are playing on the greed factor and instead of sticking to small quantities have begun offering super-sized packages. It is therefore not surprising to see a friend watching TV while eating chocolate ice cream from a large tub of ice cream meant for 10 people. Portion control was nowhere in sight. Ultimately, we all began to put on weight and the situation has reached epidemic proportions. Physicians and nutritionists have been crying themselves hoarse warning that unless we rediscovered and adopted portion control and reversed our lifestyle, we would be on a one-way ticket to the nearest morgue.
Those few of us who do decide to do something about the bulging belly, usually adopt some so called weight loss program or the other. Soon enough we realize that the only thing these weight loss programs are good for is to make our wallets leaner. Slowly but surely, people rediscover that there is no substitute for controlling the quantum of food we eat i.e. portion control for weight loss. Only portion control along with exercise will help us fight the battle of the bulge and undo the damage.
If you are amongst the fortunate few whose tummy is not yet bulging than too, you should adopt portion control because portion control is not just about limiting the food we eat. Portion control is also about eating the right foods in the right quantities and the best tool for this is to adopt the portion control plates, bowls and glasses. A portion control plate is a nifty device that helps to remind you that your health is of paramount importance. Usually 10 inches in diameter and made from Porcelain China, portion control plates have a delicate design that divides the plate into three (or sometimes four) parts. Each part is meant for a particular food group. The portion control plate therefore helps ensure you always eat a balanced meal and the quantum too, is appropriate.portion control plates and bowls
Portion control can also be exercised when having soups and liquids because 8oz soup bowls and 10oz glasses are available. Always use the portion control plates, portion control bowls and glasses instead of eating direct from the tin or drinking directly from the cartoon or can. Even food that has been purchased from your local diner should be spooned onto the portion control plate or bowl. That way you do not end up overeating.
Without doubt exercising is vital to reverse the effects of years of overeating. However, adopting portion control is the first step towards getting our lives back.
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The big question however is, should you really be losing weight or adopting a natural weight loss plans just to fit into the social notion of what constitutes beauty? Your ideal healthy weight is based on your height, age and gender. Do not go by what you see on the fashion ramp. Those skinny models are not the criteria for ideal weight. So if you are already near or at your ideal healthy weight for your height, age and gender, please avoid shedding weight for an event. Once the event done and gone, no one except one or two friends will remember whether you looked super thin and attractive or not. Therefore, if you are searching for a weight loss plan or are about to begin a weight loss plan and healthy eating guide just to lose weight for an event, we urge you to reconsider.
Your weight is not something to be played around with in this manner. True, actors in Hollywood routinely gain or lose weight depending on the movie script and directions received. However, these actors have a professional (sometimes a team of professionals) to guide them and ensure the process is smooth. In addition, their weight gain or natural weight loss program is not a trial-and-error thing nor is it based on pills and how much calories contained in food they eat like how many calories in a banana, calories in food, and calories in a green beans. The Hollywood weight loss plans are based on sheer dedication to food and exercise 14 to 18 hours a day. The weight management program that is adopted by actors requires sheer dedication – dedication to detail over a period of several months. The entire process of gaining or losing weight is always done carefully and scientifically and is closely monitored by professionals.
In contrast, teenagers and young adults usually adopt a haphazard approach to weight loss programs – an approach that is based more on what they might have heard from friends or read over the internet or in some fashion magazine. An unscientific approach to weight loss or an unscientific weight loss plans is fraught with danger. Our body is not a clay toy to be molded at will by using various artificial means. So if you do need to lose or gain weight be very careful how you go about it otherwise the internal scars might take a very long time in healing.
Visit here for : http://www.preciseportions.com/Healthy-Eating-Weight-Loss-Programs-p/healthyeatingweightlosspro.htm Monday, March, 5, 2012 Many of you must be wondering why of late, so many people are suffering from cancer. About 50 years ago, the incidence of cancer was less than 25% of the figures in 2011. To an extent because our environment is cleaner, our activity levels have decreased and we rarely if at all, follow a healthy diet plan, humans have lost some of the ability to fight common diseases and our bodies have become weaker and more susceptible to diseases. However, this still does not explain why the incidences of cancer have quadrupled over the past five decades. The only logical explanation one can think of is the chemicals that directly or indirectly seep into our bodies.
Our food is awash with chemicals
These days all eateries and pre-packaged food manufacturers use a wide variety of chemicals primarily to enhance the shelf life of the product and secondarily to make the product tastier. Whatever little research is done is extremely short term and more often than not, the research is just to fulfill legal obligations. There is hardly any independent or government verification of the results.
The chemicals used in foods accumulate in our bodies and slowly corrupt it from the inside. Cancer is not something that happens overnight – it takes many years before it is detected. Those of us who are fortunate enough to afford a yearly full service checkup might have the cancer detected at its infancy. For the majority of people however, by the time cancer is detected it is already too late.
For obvious reasons, no government agency wants to come out and say modern day food is the source of the increase in cancer instead, this year USDA has recommended a shift to healthy eating meal plan that relies less on meats and more on vegetables. Unfortunately, businesses that deal in ready to eat and pre-packaged food were quick to increase the content of the vegetables in their preparations but also, at the same time adding a dose of the chemicals that ensure the veggies retain their color and also make it crispier. Haven’t you often wondered how is it that carrots you cook at home are pale pink and soft whereas the ones served in restaurants are bright pink and crispy? The same applies to other veggies too.
Switch over to your own weight management tips
It is therefore high time we open our eyes and realize we have been victims of business greed and lack of adequate supervision. Businesses have always claimed they can run themselves ethically and do not need government supervision. Well, the recent recession has proved how ethical they are. Businesses care only for money and profit; your health and ethics is not part of the equation. The time has come to make you own healthy eating habits plan – one that is lean on meats and high on fresh, preferably organically grown vegetables.
How many calories are in All Foods
Ever wonder how many calories are in pasta? Or calories in a banana? Or how many calories or fat grams in a cupcake? The number of calories for each food, plus the nutrition facts, is taken from the USDA’s food database with over 6000 entries. Calorie counting can be a great way to help you with your natural weight loss diet!
A Daily diet meal plan should contain food from whole grains, vegetables, fruits, pulses, healthy vegetarian recipes and milk or milk products such as yogurt. Once you are on to a healthy diet plan, cut down on visits to the local diner for French fries and burgers. If required, make it at home. Stick to your healthy diet plan. The wonderful news is that body has tremendous capacity to rectify itself. Short of cancer, most other diseases can be controlled through a healthy diet plan alone.
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Ever wonder how many calories are in pasta? Or how many calories in sugar? Or how many calories or fat grams in a cupcake? The number of calories for each food, plus the nutrition facts, is taken from the USDA’s food database with over 6000 entries.
The amount of calories in food is a huge subject in the health conscious society of today and on this site we will explore the amount of calories that are contained in a variety of specific foods and food groups. This article will be very useful for those people that carefully calorie count in order to ensure that they only consume certain calories in healthy eating foods, but also to those that just want some general information on different foods and their nutritional values. We will also provide a list of calories in healthy eating meals that you may find useful when planning your diet, this is known as calorie counting and we also explain just how people go about counting calories on this page.
Calories are found in all foods, however the amount of calories that each food contains will vary dramatically between each food and weight loss diet program. There is often a negative stigma surrounding calories in food, however this does not need to be the case as long as you understand what a calorie is, what it can do, and how to control how many you consume.
In here you will find out calories in all sorts of food that you eat every day or would like to include in your healthy diet plan. You will see calories and other information about the food you eat and useful related good and bad “side affects”.
How many calories in Kiwi
There are 61 calories in Kiwi per 100g. Which is 3.05% of daily recommended allowance (RDA) for women (2000 Calories) and 2.44% of daily recommended allowance (RDA) for men (2500 Calories)
How many calories in Avocados
There are 160 calories in Avocados per 100g. Which is 8% of daily recommended allowance (RDA) for women (2000 Calories) and 6.4% of daily recommended allowance (RDA) for men (2500 Calories)
How many calories in Apple
There are 52 calories in Apple per 100g. Which is 2.6% of daily recommended allowance (RDA) for women (2000 Calories) and 2.08% of daily recommended allowance (RDA) for men (2500 Calories)
How many calories in Tomato
There are 18 calories in Tomato per 100g. Which is 0.9% of daily recommended allowance (RDA) for women (2000 Calories) and 0.72% of daily recommended allowance (RDA) for men (2500 Calories)
How many calories in Butter
There are 717 calories in Butter per 100g. Which is 35.85% of daily recommended allowance (RDA) for women (2000 Calories) and 28.68% of daily recommended allowance (RDA) for men (2500 Calories)
How many calories in Asparagus
There are 20 calories in Asparagus per 100g. Which is 1% of daily recommended allowance (RDA) for women (2000 Calories) and 0.8% of daily recommended allowance (RDA) for men (2500 Calories)
Make better food selections, prevent calorie miscalculations, and spark ideas for creating healthy weight loss diet program, well-balanced healthy vegetarian recipes. It is important to combine a good diet with exercise. This is possibly the most difficult path to follow. Many of us find it hard to take out the time for exercise due to our busy lifestyles. But if you want to be fit and healthy, exercising every day is a must. Start small; for instance, use the stairs to go up to the first floor or start walking for ten minutes initially and gradually increase the time for walking. Exercise helps to burn off calories and when you are eating healthy, it is much easier to keep off those unwanted pounds even with moderate exercise.
Visit here for more information : http://www.preciseportions.com/Healthy-Eating-Weight-Loss-Programs-p/healthyeatingweightlosspro.htm Tuesday, February, 7, 2012 Irrespective of information, you might have received or read somewhere, weight loss means eating less than your current quantity of food. How much less you will have to eat would depend on how much you are currently eating versus the ideal quantity for your age, gender and activity level. The quantity of food we eat is measured in calories. According to USDA, an adult male requires roughly 2,300 calories per day. Irrespective of your current quantity, an ideal Daily diet meal plan and weight loss diet program will work out a menu that provides you roughly 2,000 to 2,100 calories per day. In addition to the slight deficit in the calorie count, a good weight loss plan will also require you to exercise out about 300 calories per day. This will lead to a short fall of about 500 calories per day. Your body will meet the short fall by burning fat and you end up losing weight.
A good weight loss programs is also flexible
If you exercise or workout out more than 300 calories per day, then you need to consume additional food equivalent to the excess calories because the ideal calorie deficit should not exceed 500 per day otherwise you will end up feeling weak and tired. A good weight loss diet program therefore makes allowances for extra exercises and accordingly increases the quantity of food to be consumed so that the daily calorie deficit stays steady at around 500.
Calories Count
How many calories in a banana - There are 89 calories in a banana per 100g? Which is 4.45% of daily recommended allowance (RDA) for women (2000 Calories) and 3.56% of daily recommended allowance (RDA) for men (2500 Calories)?
How many calories in a kiwi - There are 61 calories in Kiwi per 100g? This is 3.05% of daily recommended allowance (RDA) for women (2000 Calories) and 2.44% of daily recommended allowance (RDA) for men (2500 Calories?)
How many calories in Butter - There are 717 calories in Butter per 100g? Which is 35.85% of daily recommended allowance (RDA) for women (2000 Calories) and 28.68% of daily recommended allowance (RDA) for men (2500 Calories)?
How many calories in Green Beans - There are 31 calories in Green Beans per 100g. This is 1.55% of daily recommended allowance (RDA) for women (2000 Calories) and 1.24% of daily recommended allowance (RDA) for men (2500 Calories).
Healthy eating for weight loss plan also includes portion detection technique
Try this out – put your usual quantity of food on your plate, put a small quantity (a spoonful or forkful) of food in your mouth and chew slowly. Talk to someone at the table or if you are alone, read the newspaper. Idea is to slow down the rate at which you fork food into your mouth. As you chew, try to identify the various flavors in the food. If you are a foodie, try to figure out how the food might have been made (assuming you did not make it yourself). All the time you are chewing watch out for the “I am full” signal – it will come sooner than you expect. When it does, look at the food in your portion control plate. You will probably find that you have eaten about a third of the usual quantity. The food you have eaten should be taken to be your serving portion size. From the next meal onwards, ensure that only food equal to your new food portion sizes in put on your plate. Remember that the calorie figure of 2,000 given by the USDA is not set in stone. The actual calorie figure will vary from individual to individual. The experiment we mentioned here is one of the most effective techniques of detecting your potion size. Incorporate your new portion size into your weight loss diet plan.
Once you are used to eating only food in accordance to your new portion size, even if you are in a restaurant, you can serve yourself only food that matches your new portion size. Leave or parcel the excess food.
Visit here for more information : http://www.preciseportions.com/Precise-Portions-All-About-Veggies-s/52.htm Saturday, February, 4, 2012 Eating a healthier diet is a great way to lose weight or to be converted into more energetic. A diet high in fruits, vegetables and total grains is a great way to start. It is a known fact that as you start to eat more fruit, you will start to realize how much better you will feel. Digestive issues such as constipation, diarrhea or abdominal cramping, can be alleviated by eating fruit. Fruits that contain natural fiber can also help regulate bowel movements. Fruits have also been proven effective when it comes to lowering levels of cholesterol. This can help you avoid strokes and heart disease. If you’re living on junk food such as pizzas, chips and doughnuts, your waistline may be expanding, but your body could be starved of vitamins and minerals causing concentration problems. Here are some reveling facts about eating fruits and their relative facts on the body
Fruits can be great snacks to substitute junk food snacks. You would have read many an article or websites suggesting to you that you should have a fruit instead of going for a greasy bag of chips. This is great advice but one should also know that even healthy foods can make a person put on weight if they eat too much of it. If an article suggests that you have a banana, it is suggesting that you have one and not four. That brings us to the question of how many calories in a banana have. An average banana will contain about 114 grams of fruit which will provide about 100 calories. Most of the calories provided by a banana are carbohydrates which are nothing but starch and sugar.
The fruits & juice and health connection
Fruit Juice radiant’s your health in a great way. Juicing helps you absorb all the nutrients from the vegetables. Only fresh fruit juice is recommended. Not from the cans. Remember never to drink juice that is heated up. In cooked fruits the nutrients are dead. When you drink fruit juice, take in a mouthful and let it mix with your saliva before you swallow it. Don’t drink juice after the meals. Fruits must be eaten only on an empty stomach. By doing this, you can get the full benefit, as it will detoxify your system as well as supply you with energy for weight loss and other activities.
Fiber and its weight loss connection
A fiber rich diet means eating plenty of legumes, whole grains, fruits, and vegetables. A high-fiber diet can help to normalize your blood-sugar levels, improve your cholesterol, help keep you from feeling hungry all of which help in weight loss.
Aloe Vera and the anti-ageing Facts
Because of its natural quality and amazing healing benefits, pure Aloe Vera juice is rejuvenating and therefore anti aging. By drinking Aloe Vera juice you will benefit your digestive system, improves the quality of your skin and increase your energy levels no end. Healing from the inside out is the sure way to improve health permanently with a guaranteed younger healthy glow bonus
Go with the Salads
Consuming salad geens almost each day could be one of the healthiest eating habits you can choose and one of the most painless, Fresh salads are light, energizing and healthy. Salads are full of fiber
Some of the Bad Eating Habits and their effects
Eating very quickly if you use to eat in a hurry, this habit can cause acid reflux.
Not chewing the food is a result of eating very quickly and causes the same problems.
Chocolate eating Theo bromine, a bitter alkaloid of the cacao plant containing in chocolate may affect the body especially in chronic diseases or elderly.
Coffee drinking you should know that coffee is known as a natural contraceptive most coffee-addicted having problems with procreation.
Eating junk food it has become a tradition but if you want to live healthy you should skip this bad habit. Sugar and artificial sweeteners It is wrong to think that having your tea sweetened with something artificial instead of sugar add you some bonuses at your health skipping this way a lot o calories.
Visit here for more information : http://blog.preciseportions.com/ Wednesday, January, 25, 2012 When we are young, we think we can eat anything. Actually, this could not be further away from the truth. The truth is that, when we are young, our arteries and organs are new and performing at their peak. As children or young adults, instead of healthy eating habits we often prefer to eat junk food. To a certain extent, if our lifestyle is very active then the fats in the food are utilized by conversion to energy. However, even in the case of highly active youngsters, not all the facts are utilized. A major portion begins to accumulate. However, since our internal organs and arteries are still young and robust, the damage does not show up. As we continue our unhealthy healthy eating meals for a healthy diet, the sludge keeps accumulating and one fine morning we end up at the hospital where the doctors are pleased to diagnose you with a critical blockage or kidney or liver damage. Of course being humans, we all want to indulge in modern day delicacies. The occasional indulgence does no harm. If however, we love to eat ice cream, burgers and French fries every day or even four times a week that would be sufficient to cause significant damage in due course.
The problem with unhealthy food eating habits is that it packs too much energy. If you fill a car with gas beyond its capacity, the gas simply overflows. In the case of humans however, the body stores the excess energy as fat. The more we eat, the more it stores. Since the human skin is elastic, as our internal ‘store’ fills up, the skin stretches and we become obese. The only way to utilize these massive quantities of stored energy is to use it for some physical activity i.e. exercises. This however, is easier said than done. Two scoops of plain vanilla ice cream have 350 calories, calories in a banana 2500 have. To utilize 350 calories so it is not added to your existing fat content, you would have to run approximately 8 miles! Most ordinary non-athletic folks would find that impossible. It is therefore better and easier to adopt a healthy food eating habit than to indulge and sweat it out at the jogging track or in some gym.
Healthy eating menu are one that includes 30% vegetables, 25% fruit, 20% whole grains and pulses, 15% protein and 10% milk or milk products. As you can see, the bulk of your health food should come from vegetables and only 15% from meats.
One of the best ways to ensure you follow the food portion sizes is to utilize a portion control plates. These days, portion control plate are elegantly designed and made from porcelain china. Each 10-inch plate has a neat design that divides the plate into three segments for veggies and fruit, grains and proteins. Food portion plate are readily available at most crockery outlets or even online and are an elegant way to keep a control on quantity and quality of food we eat and to ensure we do not stray too far from our healthy food eating habits.
Visit here for more information : http://www.preciseportions.com/Healthy-Eating-Weight-Loss-Programs-p/healthyeatingweightlosspro.htm Thursday, January, 12, 2012 All of us including those who consider themselves physically fit need to be on a healthy eating diet. Why? For a simple reason that our bodies were not built for greasy diets or diets that were rich with butters and creams and sugar. When we consume foods that are unhealthy (and we all know what these are), we end up clogging our blood vessels as well as causing wide spread damage to our vital organs such as the kidneys and liver. Some foods even cause cancers. For example, foods that are excessively spicy are known to cause cancer of the mouth or esophagus. A healthy eating diet is therefore a sensible diet that fulfills our entire body calorie and nutrition requirements while keeping fats and sugars to a minimum.
A healthy eating diet is therefore a diet that helps maintain your body and health. Other things remaining constant, a healthy eating diet prevents occurrences of:
• Obesity
• Diabetes
• Heart ailments
• Liver damage
• Kidney damage
• Blood pressure etc.
If you can prevent the above medical problems than the chances are, your healthy eating diet will keep you physically fit till a ripe old age.
As far as nutrition goes, every food is health though some foods are healthier than others. For example, (and contrary to popular belief), fat is not only good, it is vital for the body. However, it needs to be consumed in minimal quantities. Vegetables and fruits on the other hand, can be consumed in larger quantities. The term “larger” is used in a relative sense to mean more than other foods. All foods must be eaten in moderation and should not exceed portion sizes fixed by your family physician or your nutritionist.
Remember, a healthy eating diet will:
• Fulfill your daily energy needs
• Keep diseases away from you
• Keep your eyes and skin glowing
• Enable you to sleep well
• Prevent tummy aches, pains and dysentery
• Maintains a healthy hair growth
• Amongst children, it ensures healthy growth
As we grow older, our ability to digest all types of food is severely diminished. A healthy eating diet for old people is therefore slightly different than that prescribed for rest of the population. A healthy eating diet for old people will exclude certain foods which the senior people find difficult to digest. Instead, a healthy eating diet for old people includes nutritional supplements that take the place of the food they cannot digest. Also, as we grow older, we need to cut back on our consumption of salt and sugar because with age, the body requires less salt and sugar. A healthy eating diet is therefore a relative term – it means different things to the children, teenagers, adults, the sick and the old. Before you fix yourself a healthy eating diet, it would be ideal to consult your family physician and your nutritionist. Remember there is a big difference between a family physician and a nutritionist. While your family physician will chart your overall healthy eating diet based on your gender, age, physical activity and health, it is your nutritionist who can best work out the details of your healthy eating diet.
Visit here for : http://blog.preciseportions.com/healthy-eating-how-you-can-combat-bad-breath.htm Thursday, January, 5, 2012 These days it is getting tougher and tougher to create healthy eating food diet. Half, if not more than half the food we eat comes out of tins. Even in the case of home cooked foods, ingredients such as tomato paste, garlic paste, ginger paste, etc. is usually sourced from tins. After reading the label, you might assume the food is healthy and fit to be a part of your healthy portion size but remember, such packaged and tinned foods including soups already contain more salt than we require. Watch any TV show on cooking recipes and you see the chef or the presenter being quite liberal with the salt. When we consume salt, we must remember that along with it we also end up consuming a host of chemicals that are mixed in the salt to ensure it stays dry and free flowing. Many of our friends eat healthy eating recipes believing them to be healthy. Ordinarily they would have been right except for the salt that goes in it.
So let us examine the healthy eating guide and the effect of excessive salt.
According to the USDA and nutritionists, we should not exceed 2000 mg of sodium per day. The ideal quantity of sodium in our healthy eating diet is half that figure. A single teaspoonful of salt packs 2,400 mg of sodium. We also need to remember that salt is present naturally in many of the foods we consume. Preferably, therefore our healthy eating diets should not contain any salt in addition to that which is naturally present.
Excess Sodium leads to:
• Blood pressure
• Enlarged heart
• Heart ailments
• High water retention
• Kidney stones
• Ulcers
• Heartburns
• Osteoporosis
• Gastric cancers etc
An obese person dying of a heart attack is common enough, but we also often hear of apparently healthy looking individuals dying of a heart attack and we wonder what caused it. Thanks to all the chemicals that somehow or the other find their way into our healthy eating tips, humans are anyways susceptible to all the above conditions. However, if we consume excessive salt, then it would be like giving providence a loaded dice to play against us. So, a healthy eating diet and healthy heart recipes is one that uses no salt or uses it sparingly.
Depending on the quantum of salt we used to previously consume, a healthy eating meal plan with no additional salt, takes at most a couple of weeks to get used to. A big bonus with a zero salt healthy eating diet is that your taste buds are automatically more sensitive and you find that you can taste each flavor in the food, i.e. you begin to really enjoy your meals.
Healthy diet plan with zero salt are in reality not as big a challenge as you might imagine. Adding herbs and spices not only enhances the aroma and flavor of the food, it effectively masks the lack of salt. So switch over or tweak your healthy eating diet at the earliest. You have your health to gain and diseases to lose.
Visit here for : http://www.preciseportions.com/More-Healthy-Eating-Habits-p/morehealthyeatinghabits.htm Wednesday, December, 21, 2011 A weight management program is not about losing or gaining weight – it is about maintaining the correct weight for your height, age and gender. To help you maintain the correct weight, the weight management program encompasses weight management along with health management i.e. it is about eating, breathing, exercising and sleeping. Any weight loss programs have to be a complete health care package all rolled into one.
healthy vegetarian recipesA weight management program is essentially a lifestyle program
No one is opening your mouth and forcing you to eat unhealthy foods nor is anyone stopping you from exercising. Indeed, if cooking portion size of food at home is too much of a bother than you need not even cook – just adopt a raw vegetarian diet along with your weight management program. It will not only save you from having to cook it is actually one of the best lifestyles you could possibly adopt.
Remember, being overweight is not just a question of your tummy being out of place, being overweight stresses your internal organs including the heart. When you are overweight, it means your arteries are probably clogged.
A weight management program therefore is an all-encompassing holistic approach to being overweight and usually begins with healthy eating meal plan on time, eating the right kind of meals, exercising adequately, and getting adequate sleep. Only when all these factors come together will you have the right weight for your height, age and gender.
Why weight management programs?
The Average American diet is too rich. We are doing everything that is good for business but bad for health. On the way home, you are enticed by dozens of restaurants and diners offering new revised menus with mouth-watering delicacies at throwaway inaugural prices. Who would not be enticed? If you were too busy reading the newspaper and not looking at the restaurants, your nose will entice you by taking in the aroma of the foods being cooked at the dinners. Immediately your tummy rumbles and often, even an iron-willed person will give in to temptation.
The food served in restaurants is usually low on nutrition and high on fats and sugars. In addition, we do not realize that the portion sizes of food at most eateries have almost doubled. The amount of food served is often good enough for two or more people. Therefore, every time we give in to temptation, a little bit flab is added. Over time, the accumulated flab begins to show and soon enough we are obese. A weight management program is needed to bring our lives back into shape and in doing so, regain control over our health.
Weight management programsA weight management program does not stop you from visiting restaurants and diners occasionally or binging on your favorite healthy eating breakfast. Sometimes, losing a bit of control is good because it makes you feel nice. Occasional loss of control is accepted so long as it is genuinely occasional.
So if you are ready to take control of eating out healthy your health, go get yourself a good weight management program and remember that a weight management program is not a torture course – it is a rediscovery of life and health.
Visit here for : http://www.preciseportions.com/Diabetes-and-Weight-Management-p/diabetesweightmgmt.htm Friday, December, 16, 2011 Given the extent of obesity in the United States, most of us need to be constantly on a diet control plan. Either we’re on a diet control plan or just off a diet control or about to start one. Starting a diet control plan is always a pain. Yup, all diets are a pain because it means we don’t get to eat whatever we like to eat i.e. burgers, pastas, French fries and the like. Instead, we eat food that is nutritionally good and in quantities that that are usually just a tad less than what would ideally satisfy our stomach.
Diet control has some unique challenges but with a little bit of planning we can overcome them quite easily
Diet Control Step One – Research
There are millions of pages of data out there – all you have to do is, search for it. Try keywords such as “diet control” or “natural weight loss”, or “obesity control” and so on. Steer clear of anything artificial such as diet control pills and other forms of diet control short-cuts. These never worked for anyone and usually caused a great deal of harm in the long term.
While researching for your ideal diet control recipe, search also, for online or offline software that will keep track of your weight, calories consumed, calories utilized (via exercise and other activities), etc. Using some software to keep track of your diet control makes the task easier because it usually provides summarized and detailed reporting. This will also help your family physician as well as your nutritionist or physical trainer.
Diet Control Step Two – Don’t stop until you’re thru
The worst possible reason to break your diet control is to assume that you can’t do it because you lost control on one or two occasions. Know that you are permitted to lose control – a couple of times a month is quite normal. Most humans do tend to lose control on occasion and frankly, that is what makes us humans. So if you lost control at a party and ate a couple of pastries relax, it is not the end of your diet control. If on occasion you feel like a burger or a French fry (who wouldn’t?), order yourself a small portion or take a friend along mentioning that you would like to share a plate of French fries or a burger. Remember that modern day portion sizes served in most restaurants are bigger that what your nutritionist would recommend so enjoying a snack with your friend or family member would be ideal. If you lost control on occasion, just acknowledge it and continue with your diet control.
Diet Control Step Three – Unbalance the Equation
Confused? Don’t be. In school we studied about balanced mathematical equations. All equations need to be balanced on either side of the equal sign. Well, this holds true in all scenarios except when you wish to lose weight. If the goal of your diet control is to lose weight, you need to eat roughly 200 calories less per day than you utilize. For example, if the diet control software you use indicates that you utilize roughly 2,300 calories per day then, on the other side of the equation the calories gained from food intake should not exceed 2100 per day. The shortfall of 200 calories would be met by burning fat. Remember in diet control for weight loss, the magic calorie deficit figure is 200. Do not let the shortfall be more than 200 or you could end up with unwanted medical complications.
Visit here for more information : http://blog.preciseportions.com/ Wednesday, December, 7, 2011 It is said facts are sometimes stranger than fiction. Whoever said it probably knew what he or she was talking about – at least it holds true as far as human food consumption is concerned. Fact is, humans have begun eating more food than they need to. Higher disposable income has led to humans eating all sorts of exotic and ultra-rich food both at restaurants and at home. Portion size in restaurants and dinners too has undergone a dramatic upsizing. Each Healthy portion plate of food served at your local dinner probably can feed two if not more people. The smallest unit of readymade packaged foods too has undergone a sea change – there is enough food in it to feed more than one person. Businesses too are playing on the greed factor and instead of sticking to small quantities have begun offering super-sized packages. It is therefore not surprising to see a friend watching TV while eating chocolate ice cream from a large tub of ice cream meant for 10 people. Portion control was nowhere in sight. Ultimately, we all began to put on weight and the situation has reached epidemic proportions. Physicians and nutritionists have been crying themselves hoarse warning that unless we rediscovered and adopted portion control and reversed our lifestyle, we would be on a one-way ticket to the nearest morgue.
Those few of us who do decide to do something about the bulging belly, usually adopt some so called weight loss programs or the other. Soon enough we realize that the only thing these weight management programs are good for is to make our wallets leaner. Slowly but surely, people rediscover that there is no substitute for controlling the quantum of food we eat i.e. portion control. Only portion control along with exercise will help us fight the battle of the bulge and undo the damage.
portion control guideIf you are amongst the fortunate few whose tummy is not yet bulging than too, you should adopt portion control because diabetes weight management is not just about limiting the food we eat. Portion control is also about eating the right foods in the right quantities and the best tool for this is to adopt the portion control plates, bowls and glasses. A portion control plate is a nifty device that helps to remind you that your health is of paramount importance. Usually 10 inches in diameter and made from Porcelain China, portion control plates have a delicate design that divides the plate into three (or sometimes four) parts. Each part is meant for a particular food group. The portion control plate therefore helps ensure you always eat a balanced healthy eating plan and the quantum too, is appropriate.
Portion control can also be exercised when having soups and liquids because 8oz soup bowls and 10oz glasses are available. Always use the meal portion plates, bowls and glasses instead of eating direct from the tin or drinking directly from the cartoon or can. Even food that has been purchased from your local diner should be spooned onto the portion control plate or bowl. That way you do not end up overeating.
Without doubt exercising is vital to reverse the effects of years of overeating. However, adopting serving sizes of food is the first step towards getting our lives back.
Visit here for more information : http://www.preciseportions.com/ Thursday, November, 24, 2011 Thin is not “in”. Healthy eating habits are not about starving yourself. If anything, healthy eating habits are about feeding our family adequately with foods selected from the five food groups (more about this later). When you adopt healthy eating habits and foods for a healthy diet in adequate quantities,
http://a248.e.akamai.net/origin-cdn.volusion.com/penvm.tdrca/v/vspfiles/photos/categories/52.jpg• You feel good,
• You feel energetic throughout the day
• Your skin glows in good health
• Your immune system improves dramatically
• You have less chances of suffering from heart disease, diabetes, cancer, etc.
• Reduced chances of being depressed
• Your intellectual ability improves
• Your memory improves
• Your body weight is maintained
• You spend less on medical bills
Preparation for a shift to healthy eating habits:
Think success
Do you have the power to give up that twice-a-week burger and French fries? Or does your tongue rule you? Of course not! Each of us has the power and ability to take charge of our health. Whether we want to live out our future life on a healthy diet plan of pills or be bright and sprightly with health as good if not better than those at half our age is up to us.
Once you take the first big step of saying “yes you can”, remember that from time to time you will crave for some of the junk foods you loved so much. For such occasions, keep a fruit handy. Any fruit will do. Have whenever you feel like eating a burger or French fries or whatever – fruit really does the trick!
Acquire the basic knowledge of healthy foods and healthy eating out
This site has a lot of information on what constitutes healthy food and the quantities you should be eating. Pay special attention to the Healthy Eating Pyramid. It really is not difficult at all. Food is broadly divided into 5 parts; Grains, Vegetables, Fruit, Milk and the fifth part consists of Meats and beans. Each part consists of certain healthy food items and the quantities to be consumed on a daily basis. Once you have this basic knowledge you are ready to make the transition to good health by switching over to healthy diet foods.
Now that we know what to eat, let’s change over to healthy eating habits.
Healthy eating habit 1: Cook daily
Any cut or cooked food begins to lose nutrients immediately. All nutrients are lost approximately 3 hours after cutting or cooking. So the first portion control diets plan should be to cook daily and not on a weekly basis.
Healthy eating habit 2: Plan your meals
Planning meals avoids last minute random selection of food. Healthy eating breakfast put you in control of your diet and in charge of what goes into your stomach.
Healthy eating habit 3: Eat on time and portion sizes of food
Your stomach secretes digestive juices at regular intervals in expectation of food. If it does not get food when it expects it, you begin to suffer from acidity and other medical problems. Conversely, if you feed the stomach when it does not expect to be fed, the food remains undigested for a long time because of the lack of digestive juices. The production of digestive juices and introduction of food into the stomach should coincide.
Healthy eating habit 4: Control the portions
http://a248.e.akamai.net/origin-cdn.volusion.com/penvm.tdrca/v/vspfiles/photos/Napa_Cabbage-2T.jpgWhen we lay out food on the dining table, family members’ pickup their plates and heap food onto their plates. There is little control over the quantity of food they eat.Also, people tend to pick and choose and most dislike vegetables. Ideally, you should serve yourself and each member of the family taking care to see that the weight management programs are maintained and that each person receives the correct quantity of all the food on the table. If you have problems with portion sizes, use food portion plate and scoopers. These are ideal tools for ensuring portion sizes.
Healthy eating habit 5: Shop at the perimeter of the grocery store
At your next visit to the grocery store take a look at the items that are stocked at the perimeter of the store. You will be surprised to see fresh fruits, vegetables, dairy products, fish, poultry and whole grain breads i.e. all the healthy portion size you need. The interior in contrast is stocked with processed foods – the kind you should avoid.
Visit here for more information : http://www.preciseportions.com/Healthy-Recipes-for-Weight-Management-s/38.htm Thursday, November, 10, 2011 The key to eating and living healthy is a balanced, nutritious diet. And to consume a balanced diet, you need to have foods from all the food groups, that is, fruits, vegetables, meats and poultry, whole grains, dairy products and oils/fats. You must attempt to include a variety of foods so that you get the essential nutrients that the body needs. It is a good practice to base your meals on starchy foods. But make sure that you are weight management program advice. Eat brown rice instead of white rice and opt for whole-wheat bread so that it gives you some essential minerals and vitamins that would otherwise be difficult to obtain. Eat lots of fresh vegetables, fruits and fish. Drink plenty of water and maintain a healthy body weight with the help of a daily exercise routine.
Balance is the key:
Eating and living healthy is all about moderation and balance. Bodily fitness requires healthy menu planner and exercise to improve physical as well as emotional functioning. Living healthy helps to avoid diseases and health disorders. Too much or too little of anything can be bad for you. With portion sizes getting bigger in the recent years, it is hard to keep track of the quantum of food we consume. In order to maintain the ideal weight, nutritionists recommend reducing the portion sizes. If you are not sure how this is to be done, make use of a healthy eating plate.
Don't skip healthy eating breakfast:
One of the golden rules of eating and living healthy is not to skip your breakfast. Healthy snack food is the most important meal that gets you through your day. Also, rather than having three large meals each day, break them down into several smaller meals. This way your body can absorb the food in a better way and maintain energy levels that boost your metabolism.
Keep away from processed foods:
The rise in chronic diseases and obesity levels can be attributed to the consumption of processed foods by a majority of the population. Processed and packaged foods are high in fats, sugar and sodium which are bad for the body. The best way to eating and living healthy is to eat more fruits and healthy vegetarian recipes. Snack on an apple or a cucumber or munch on a handful of almonds to give you those essential nutrients and fiber which is so much healthier than a bag of crisps.
Prepare your own healthy eating tips:
If you are interested in eating and living healthy, it is worthwhile to prepare your own meals. Eating home cooked food is another step towards a healthy lifestyle. Preparing your own healthy portion sizes of food enables you to make healthy choices by keeping a control on the quantum of sugar, salts and fats that would go into any food preparation. With the multitude of kitchen equipment available today, cooking is no longer the dreary chore that it used to be. Even if you have a busy work schedule, it doesn't take much time to whip up a healthy diet plan. After all, you owe it to yourself to take care of your health and body.
Maintain discipline when healthy eating plan:
Foods eaten at restaurants tend to be high in saturated fats and you have little control over portion size, resulting in higher intake of calories. When eating out, it's a good serving sizes of food and adults to look for smaller portions or share larger portions with a companion. Another way to cut down on fat intake is to choose salads or vegetables but without the butter or cream–based sauces. Select baked, grilled, steamed or poached food items rather than fried stuff. For desert, opt for a fruit dish instead of sweets.
Visit here for more information : http://www.preciseportions.com/28-Portion-Control-Guide-Menu-Planning-Placemats-p/ppplcmt-28.htm Friday, October, 28, 2011 Healthy eating is a term that is often mixed with medical terminology and thrown about like it was the elixir of good health. In reality, healthy eating simply means eating the right quantities of foods from various food sources each of which is divided into groups called “food groups”. These food groups are Grains, Vegetables, Fruits, Milk and Meats. Each of these groups in turn, contains a list of healthy snack food items that are deemed healthy and good for you.
The terms “healthy eating” and “diet” are inter-linked. Diet simply means the food we consume in the course of a day and does not refer to some stringent exotic food plan. Therefore, the terms “healthy eating” and “good healthy diet” essentially mean the same thing i.e. they promote good health.
A good Healthy Eating Ideas must include certain quantities of food from all the five food groups and for this reason it is known as the “balanced diet”. Nutrition experts have worked out the balanced diet by taking into consideration all the requirements of your body including hair, skin, tissues and internal organs.
Nutrition and healthy eatingLet us examine each of these food groups that form part of your healthy eating tips:
Grains: A healthy eating diets should ideally consume no less than 3 ounces of whole grains per day. Unlike polished grains (e.g. white rice), whole grains are rich in minerals, vitamins and fiber.
Tip: When buying whole grain you need to be careful because it is usually not possible to visually identify whole grain. You need to look at the product label.
Food items made from whole grain includes cereals, breads and pastas. Again, please read the labels to ensure these are made from 100% whole grain. Some whole grain foods and flours are corn, brown rice, wild rice, bugler, wheat, buckwheat, oatmeal (oats), spelt.
Vegetables and Fruits for Daily diet meal plan: Fruits must be consumed fresh either whole or in the form of bite sized chunks. Fruits contain oxidants and so must be consumed immediately after cutting because the oxidants in the fruit begin to deteriorate the moment it comes in contact with air. For this reason, fruits must never be consumed in the form of juices because the moment the fruit is turned into pulp, the oxidation that occurs reduces the nutritional value of the fruit rendering it near useless.
Vegetables too must be consumed fresh. The more dense the color of the vegetable the better it is. Thus fresh, dark green or purple or yellow is better than pale colors. Leafy vegetables or healthy eating recipes must form part of your healthy way to eat.
Meats: Your body needs protein for tissue repair. Foods rich in protein also usually contain essential minerals, such as zinc, iron, magnesium, and also B vitamins. If your source of proteins is meats then care should be taken to trim away any visible skin and fat before cooking. Fish too is an excellent source of healthy ways of eating and protein as well as omega oils. Ideally, you should grill or roast your meats and fish. Never fry.
Milk: Milk and milk products are a good source of calcium which is required for your bones and teeth. As far as possible avoid full cream milk. Low fat or skimmed milk is ideal. People, who cannot consume milk and milk products, should include broccoli, cabbage and Soya milk in their diet.
Visit here for more information : http://www.preciseportions.com/Healthy-Eating-Weight-Loss-Programs-p/healthyeatingweightlosspro.htm Thursday, October, 13, 2011 Those of us who have driven hundreds of miles on American freeways known what it is like; cheap fast food joints, sodas, pies, jelly, fries and burgers. At the end of the day we have a bloated stomach that could do us proud at a burp and gas contest. You may laugh at the memory of your own road trips but you also know there’s little to joke about our road experiences. In this article we present you some helpful tips on how to keep both your stomach and your spirits up and alert on the long stretches of highway.
Eating Healthy when traveling: tip 1 Plan your pit stops
Plan your trip with precision. We know it’s difficult especially when there are kids traveling with you but do your best to estimate arrival times at various towns and cities along the route. Plan your trip in such a way that you pass through a town at lunch, healthy eating breakfast and dinner time. Google the selected towns and create a list of the best restaurants. These days you can probably also view their menu online if so, look for restaurants that have a wholesome menu i.e. menu that has salads, vegetables, baked potatoes, whole grain breads and so on. If in doubt, call them up to make inquiries and reservations if required.
Portion size guide when traveling: tip 2 Prepare the first snack at home
Prepare for the journey by carrying sandwiches with you for the first half of the day. Spiced Turkey or Chicken sandwich with salad leaves and herbs would be ideal. Each person including kids should have one large bottle of water in their hand and an equal quantity in the luggage hold.
Healthy menu planner When Traveling: tip 3 Snack every two hours or so.
Roughly two hours into the journey, hand out the prepared sandwiches to all. Often in the excitement of the trip, we forget to drink water so you need to make sure everyone consumes the water provided to them. Stop as often as required to pick up more drinking water.
Easy healthy eating when traveling: tip 4 Top up!
When you stop at a gas station, stop for gas or drinking water or to visit the rest room – not for food. Most of us do not want to ‘waste time on eating’ but trust us, you and your family will be more than glad you did not eat junk food at the gas station.
Healthy eating information When Traveling: tip 5 the Restaurant.
Make whatever detour is necessary to stop at the restaurant that is on your list. When ordering request for little or no fat cooking. Start with a healthy veggies recipes and soup. Order a salad such as the Sesame Chicken Salad. It is usually made with Grilled chicken strips tossed with Romaine lettuce, fresh cilantro, sliced almonds, sesame seeds, green onions, and crispy wonton strips sesame vinaigrette. Order meat only if it is grilled or baked. If grilled or baked is not on the menu, select fish if available. If your kids insist on pizza, order thin, non-stuffed crust with pineapple or broccoli or grilled chicken toppings. If this is a Mexican restaurant order soft, non-fried tortillas as in burritos or enchiladas.
Eating Healthy when traveling: tip 6 on the road snacks
Stop where you are likely to get a healthy sandwich or other portion control tips. If your kids see a McDonald’s and hollers for a stop, orders the Egg McMuffin - it’s healthy and your kids will love it.
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To really see us through our ‘big day’ we need a ‘long run’ booster. The best, cheapest and healthiest source of long run booster is high carbohydrate food and portion size of food. However, carbohydrate on its own will not do as it needs to be taken in combination with other foods so it can metabolize efficiently and release energy. Here they are our healthy salad dressing for your big day and may it help you shine bright.
Healthy eating food tip # 1: Power up with Protein and complex carbs
Start your big day with a healthy breakfast recipes consisting of protein - think egg, turkey or chicken recipes. For complex carbohydrate think peanut butter sandwich on whole wheat bread. Top up with fruit juice.
Eating healthy on the run tip # 2: Add mini boosters
Two hours after breakfast, have a high-fiber, carbohydrate-rich snack. Something like half a cup of high-fiber cereal topped with nuts and half teaspoon of honey.
Healthy ways of eating on the run tip # 3: Add traffic stops
Add small 10 minute breaks. Trust us you can do it - the World is not going to end during your ultra small 10 minute break. A break in your activity does not mean sitting down at a meeting. A break is doing absolutely nothing. Doing absolutely nothing for 10 minutes will not only help you overcome fatigue, it actually gets more done in the course the day. Think of yourself as the woodcutter who stops to sharpen his (or her) axe.
Healthy eating diets on the run # 4: Add a mini jog
Sounds strange, but this works very well. If your big day involves mostly sitting at marathon meetings or has little physical activity, take a 2 minute jog down the corridor. When you jog adrenaline and energy is released. And this serves as an instant ‘perk up’.
Healthy eating tips on the run tip # 5: Add a 3-minute Meditation
The fatigue-fighting effects of meditation are too well documented to be ignored. There’s no need to be dramatic and add candles or incense. Just sit quietly on your chair and meditate on the activities up to that moment. You will not only feel refreshed but might also have a few brainwaves.
Healthy diet plan on the run tip # 6: Power lunch
Don’t skip it. It will hardly take 10 minutes. Give yourself either a whole wheat bread Tuna sandwich with salad or whole wheat bread Turkey sandwich with salad. Top up with fruit juice.
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Teenagers often suffer from tiredness, acne, and low energy, increased susceptibility to illness, constipation and moodiness. Most of these problems are related to unhealthy diets. Here’s how we can create healthy eating for teenagers:
A teenager still has a lot of growing to do and so needs proper nutrients to get them through a typical school or college day. Teenagers need an average of about 2,000 calories per day and lot of carbs, proteins, calcium and iron. If your teenager participates in a lot of sporting activities then he (or she) could need up to 2,800 calories per day.
The best ways we can ensure our kids eat well is by educating them on the relationship between food and the body and leave it to them to make the right choices when they eat outside the house. Within the house there are a lot of things you can do to encourage daily food planner for teenagers.
Reduce availability of junk food by 80% and substitute with wholesome snacks
For example, instead of buying 10 bags of chips per week, reduce that to 2 bags. Each morning before you leave for work, prepare a couple of turkey or tuna sandwiches and keep them in the fridge. You could also prepare a jug of chocolate milk shake or fresh fruit juice. Let your teenagers know what’s in the fridge.
Make sure your teenagers eat a healthy breakfast
Don’t take no for an answer. A healthy portion sizes of food is a must otherwise your teenagers will feel lethargic, dull and lack the concentration required doing well in studies and sports.
If your teenagers won’t be home for lunch, pack them a good lunch box
Encourage your teenagers to come home for lunch. However, if they can’t make it for lunch at least ensure they carry a nutritious lunch as well as a fruit. Apples or bananas are easier to eat and don’t mess your hands.
Have breakfast (if possible lunch), and dinner with your teenagers
Research indicates that teenagers who eat with their parents tend to be healthier and have healthy eating information when they're older. Teenage girls who have meals regularly with their parents have fewer incidences of eating disorders.
Make sure the dinner menu includes lots of fruits, vegetables, veggie salad recipes and protein
Make sure the dinner you cook includes lots of fruits, vegetables and good lean protein. If possible, include your teenage kids in planning the healthy eating food or even helping you with the preparation. Encouraging their participation in the meal preparation will reduce their resistance to eating wholesome nutritive food.
Break down resistance by using portion control plates and portion scoops
You might face a lot of resistance from your teenagers for eating vegetables. Show them a portion control scoop and encourage them to eat just one scoop. Later on you will have to work at encouraging them to take additional scoops of vegetable but that’s a different issue. By showing them a scoop they know the quantity you will put on their plate. Also, if you use portion control plate that has food group demarcations on them, you can encourage your teenage kids to take servings of all the variety of food that is on the dining table.
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Eating the Right Foods:
Healthy eating diets for men should include foods from all the food groups in the right proportion. So, your daily intake must comprise of two cups of fruits, two and half cups of vegetables and a minimum of five ounces of whole grains. Whole grains are a rich source of fiber, minerals and vitamins essential for heart health and maintaining the ideal body weight. Vegetables like tomato contain lycopene which is good for your prostrate. Fish, fruits and milk also give the required dose of potassium and calcium that your body needs.
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Healthy Eating for Men: Go beyond meats
Men favor meats more than any other food simply because it gives the proteins to aid muscle buildup. Lean beef or lean pork also gives the required quantity of zinc required for the body. But, what is often ignored is the fact that the diet should also be balanced by eating vegetables and whole grains. And meat need not be the only source of protein – you can get it from beans too. Soy beans not only provide protein, but are rich in is of lav ones that may reduce the risk of prostrate cancer.
Healthy Eating for Men: Whole grain cereals are good for you
Your energy requirement depends on your weight, height and activity level. In general, men are bigger than women and have more muscle mass. So their calorie requirement is much higher which is easily provided by whole grains. Whole grain bread, cereal or pasta, brown rice, oats and barley are high in fiber and an important source of carbohydrates. This healthy snack food gives you a feeling of fullness and the nutrition as well as the essential energy to see you through the day.
Healthy Eating for Men: Snack on fruits and berries
Fruits like banana are not only a great source for quick energy, but they provide the potassium needed to regulate the heartbeat, the nerves and reduce the risk of strokes. Vitamins and other nutrients found in fruits can assist protein metabolism, aid the immune system and help form blood cells. Colorful berries and cherries contain antioxidants that offer a multitude of health benefits.
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Healthy Eating for Men: Make fish a part of your diet
Oily fish like trout, tuna, salmon, sardines, herrings and mackerels contain Omega-3 Fats that benefit the heart, the immune system and help reduce aches and pains. Nutrition experts recommend at least two to three servings of fish each week. Try having your fish steamed or barbequed, never fried to get the best of nutrition.
Healthy Eating for Men: Cut out saturated fats
Cut down your consumption of saturated fats by trimming meats and removing skin. Switch to low-fat dairy products and avoid fried foods. Choose unsaturated fats like olive oil and canola oil as your cooking medium. Include nuts and seeds in your portion control tips. It’s quite easy to grab a handful of almonds for a snack or top your salads with a sprinkling of sunflower seeds instead of mayonnaise.
Healthy Eating for Men: Control the portions
Men always seem to have a problem controlling how much food they ladle on to the plate. While eating adequate quantity is a must, overeating as we know, leads to severe complications. To bring in a semblance of control, use portion control plate and scoopers. Portion control plates have clear demarcations for the food that is placed on the plate. Portion control scooper is also vital because you can control and measure the quantity of food that is served.
As we mentioned earlier, a portion sizes of food can work wonders for your body only if you exercise. Make time to exercise at least two to three times per week. You can also increase your daily activity by simply taking the stairs or walking to your car which is parked a block away. Walking helps burn the calories and keeps you fit.
Visit here for : http://www.preciseportions.com/Tips-on-Eating-Healthy-p/tipsoneatinghealthy.htm Friday, July, 22, 2011 When it comes to food, a size does matter – that is, the amount of food you eat. Food that we require in our healthy eating out is broadly divided into five groups – Grains, Vegetables, Fruits, Milk and final group being meats and beans. Each group consists of certain foods. Each of these foods in turn must be eaten in certain quantities every day. The caloric value of all the foods from all the five groups should not be less than or more than amount of calories that you require which is approximately 2,300 for a healthy male adult.
However, controlling how much we eat or what we eat is more difficult than expected. We normally prepare food and lay it out on the dining table. Each one picks up a plate and ladles food onto the plate – we tend not to measure it out. Also, people tend to pick and choose what they wish to eat. Most adults usually tend to ignore vegetables or eat them in quantities that are far below the daily recommendation. Similarly, we heap our plates with meats and other “goodies” because we love them. So although the food spread might meet the daily requirements in terms of quantity and nutrients, the quantities and food items we actually eat might fail the test of good dietary requirement.
So what is Portion size?
To most individuals, portion size refers to the quantum of food you heap on to your plate and tips on eating healthy in one go. In reality, portion size actually refers to the amount of food you are supposed to have in terms of your age, gender and physical activity.
Here is what one 1 portion looks like for various food items that need to be a part of your daily diet meal plan:
• Size of a baseball: Vegetables or fruit.
• One handful: Cooked rice or pasta
• Deck of cards: Meat, poultry or fish
• Size of a golf ball: Dried fruit or nuts
• Size of a tennis ball: Ice cream
• Computer mouse: Baked potato
• Size of a compact disc and just as thin: Pancake / waffle
• Size of your thumb: Peanut butter
• Six dice: Cheese
• Check book: A fillet of fish
Honestly, we doubt even a nutritionist can dish out food in perfect portion sizes.
Is there a way to measure the portion sizes of food?
Fortunately yes! We don’t have to keep a baseball or deck of cards or a CD handy on the dinner table. Modern ingenuity and need of the hour has helped create and perfect the serving sizes of food control or portion control plates and scoopers.
The manufacturers of diabetic plate help you get it right and in doing so, being in control of not only the quantum of food you consume, but also what foods you consume. The portion control plate takes out the “emotional” factor from the quantum of food by preventing us from heaping more on to our plate just because we love a particular food item.
To begin with, healthy portion plate is smaller than traditional plates. This makes us feel the plate is loaded i.e. we see more food than there actually is. Real portion control plates also have demarcations for various food groups. This is of immense help as it allows you to see at a glance just how much of each food should be on the plate.
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Some 20 years ago the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) created a visual representation of what an adult American should be eating: the Healthy Eating Pyramid. The
Healthy Eating Pyramid structure was a stroke of genius. The shape and the manner in which the food was represented indicated that some weight management tips were good and should be consumed in larger quantities while some were important but should be eaten in lesser quantities. Towards the peak of the Healthy Eating Pyramid were food that should be consumed the least.
This simple visual eating out healthy conveyed in a flash the main elements of a weight management programs. Those of us who went to an American school in the late 80’s would remember this Pyramid. There were countless media articles and brochures on the subject but then it is doubtful many of us even remember all that now.
Portion control for weight lossAbout five years ago, the USDA re-launched the Healthy Eating Pyramid renaming it ‘My Pyramid’. This time they made it into an online interactive kind of thing. While the attempt was good, it is still far from perfect. The re-launched Healthy Eating Pyramid Guide while better than the previous one still failed to convey adequate information to help people make the right food choices. Also, it continued to recommend foods that according to most nutritionists should not even be on your healthy eating food.
As an alternative to the government’s somewhat flawed Healthy Eating Pyramid Guide, the Harvard School of Public Health did a fresh study and came up with the Healthy Eating Pyramid that you see here.
The Healthy Eating Pyramid designed by Harvard School of Public Health is based on scientific evidence that links the food we eat to the state of our health. This new pyramid fixes fundamental flaws in the USDA pyramid and offers sound information to help people make better choices about what to eat.
The Healthy Eating Pyramid Explained
Weight change = calories in – calories out. In other words, if you utilize as many calories as you consume then your weight will remain the same. If you consume more number of calories then it the excess is stored as fat. Exercise helps not only keeps your muscles toned it helps you burn any excess calories you might have consumed.Portion control for weight loss
As we move up the Healthy Eating Pyramid, we encounter ‘Whole Grains’. These are the main source of carbohydrates (energy) for your body. Excellent sources of carbohydrates include oatmeal, brown rice and whole wheat bread. On the same level are healthy vegetarian recipes, ‘fats and oils’ and ‘vegetables and fruits’. Fats are extremely essential to our body. Healthy fats are found in olive oil, soy, corn, canola, peanut, sunflower, nuts, avocadoes, seeds and fish such as salmon.
You will find detailed information on each of the food items mentioned in the Healthy Eating Pyramid Guide in other articles on this site.
There is something important that you need to note about the Healthy Eating Pyramid designed by Harvard School of Public Health; the Healthy Eating Pyramid does not state how much you should be eating. This is an important deviation and they explain it by stating that the Healthy Eating Pyramid is not meant to be a rigid road map. Also, the amount of food consumed should depend on the person’s body size and physical activity. The Healthy Eating Pyramid designed by Harvard School of Public Health is meant to be a simple, flexible guide as to the food that should be on your Healthy Eating Weight Loss.
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